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Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton ‘inexcusable’

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) continued his attack on former-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday for her handling of the Sept. 11 attack at U.S. posts overseas, including the one in Benghazi, Libya, where Christopher Stevens and others were killed.

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Rand Paul to Clinton: I would have fired you

“The person I second-guess is not the Defense Department, I second-guess secretary Clinton for not having adequate security, for turning down security, for saying, ‘Oh, I get a million cables, I didn’t have time to read the cables asking for more security,’” Paul said on Fox News.

Paul, who is considering a 2016 run for president, reiterated the same criticisms he used against Clinton when she testified last month about the attacks. During the hearing, he said he would have fired her for not reading the security requests.

On Thursday, the tea partier doubled-down: “I’m not asking that she read every cable from Bulgaria to Estonia – but Libya was one of the most five dangerous places in the world easily by anybody’s calculation.”

He called it “inexcusable” that she not have read the security cables.

“It was inexcusable for her not to read these requests for security and then to have her department turn down the requests for security – really that was inexcusable,” said Paul, son of former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul. “And I really think there has not been enough made of the lapse or lack of security in advance of the attacks.”

For her part, Clinton has been lying low since leaving the State Department, though she did register a new website domain name: HillaryClintonOffice.com. She is widely considered a 2016 frontrunner in the Democratic field.